Pedestal for Theatrograph Projector No 2 Mark 1

Pedestal for Paul Kinematograph apparatus, seven star, March 1896 type. Replica driving handle.

Robert Paul demonstrated this, the first 35mm film projector commercially produced in Britain at Finsbury Technical College, London on 20 February 1896, the same day as the preview showing of the Cinématographe Lumière in London.

This projector is no. 2, the second, improved model, patented on 2 March 1896, which originally sold for £80. Over 100 were produced and sold. With its intermittent motion provided by sprocket rollers driven by a Maltese Cross mechanism, this machine formed the prototype for the modern film projector. Paul designed and made five different models of his Theatrograph and produced over 800 films before quitting the film business in 1910.